Re: Managing services

From: Juan Carlos Inostroza (jci_at_tux.cl)
Date: 03/30/04

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:29:49 -0400

    On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:26, Fabrício Santos wrote:
    > Are there any more extensive docs to this utility?

    man service? :-)

    (hint: service <servicename> action == /etc/init.d/servicename action)

    > 2. /etc/rcX.d
    >
    > Inside the rcX.d directories, there are files named K99servicename and
    > S99servicename. I supose the K stands for Kill at reboot or halt time, and S
    > stands for Start at bootup time. Then the numbers are just a way of sorting
    > the way the services are started or stopped. Is this correct? Where can I
    > learn more on these matters?

    Check the initscripts at /etc/init.d. There is a line that reads

    # chkconfig: 2345 08 92

    the first value says the runlevels the script will run(2,3,4 and 5). The
    second value, the start priority (S08) and the last one, the stopping
    priority (K92)

    > 3. ln -s /etc/init.d/httpd S35httpd
    >
    > Is there any FC1 text based utility that may create these links
    > automatically instead of forcing the way manually like I did?

    chkconfig servicename on/off

    --jci 

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